Dongsok Shin performs the Sonata in D minor, K. 9, by Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) on the earliest known surviving piano, made by the instrument's inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), in Florence, 1720. Scarlatti’s keyboard compositions were performed on both the harpsichord and the early piano.

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